‘Bright Jewels ’ represents the gems which come from a life peppered with sadness and long periods where the creativity of his earlier years did not flow as so many may have wished. To quote directly from Ruth Arnold’s poem of 1939, entitled The World’s Tears


The World’s Tears

A sad heart
Is a bright jewel in the fabric of Immortality
A merry heart is but a bubble,
Gaily coloured outside,
But a barren substance at the core.
It breaks eventually –
And Wisdom gathers the memory of it in her breast
To keep until the Time of using it.

No heart has blossomed
Til love’s tears has succoured it,
And no heart finds happiness
Till it has born sadness;
For, with the benison of sorrow
Comes the triple blessing of understanding,
And that is the wisdom of all races,
And all ages.

So open wide the gates of sacrifice,
And let the world’s tears
Find solace within your own heart.

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So we celebrate the release of this new double CD of music by Air Malcolm Arnold CBE, ‘Bright Jewels ’ - music from the 1940s and 50s.

Buy it now online at £14.99 plus £1.50 postage and packing at Link Buy Bright Jewels CD – Malcolm Arnold